George Cabot "Bay" Lodge (October 10, 1873 – August 21, 1909) was an American poet of the late 19th and early-20th century. Lodge was born in Boston. His father was Henry Cabot Lodge, a politician. His mother was Anna Cabot Mills Davis. He was named after his great-great-grandfather, senator George Cabot. He served in the Spanish American war and was a freind of Teddy Roosevelt.


Letter inlaid adressed to Vladimir Sokoloff
"Dear Mr. Sokoloff:
Your letter of September 29th delights me very much and I am sure will give great pleasure to my mother.
George Cabot Lodge was my father and he died when I was six years old. There is a biography written of him by Theodore Roosevelt and I believe you can find it in the Public Library.
His poetry has not received much notice of late and I am consequently most pleased you should feel this way about it.
I am sending your letter to my mother who, I know will be deeply gratified.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "

Contains Sokoloff's book plate pasted in

George Cabot "Bay" Lodge (October 10, 1873 – August 21, 1909) was an American poet of the late 19th and early-20th century. Lodge was born in Boston. His father was Henry Cabot Lodge, a politician. His mother was Anna Cabot Mills Davis. He was named after his great-great-grandfather, senator George Cabot.

Lodge began studies at Harvard College, and continued them in France and Berlin into his mid-twenties. At Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard Polo Club.[1] In 1897, Lodge began work as a secretary to both his father and a U.S. Senate committee in Washington. He later served successfully in the Spanish–American War as a naval cadet. Lodge was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, who penned a fond introduction for the posthumous 1911 collection Poems and Dramas of George Cabot Lodge. He was best known for his delicate sonnets, such as the Song of the Wave, Essex, and Trumbull Stickney (Stickney was a friend and admirer), several of which were anthologized. His style and artistic outlook were deeply affected by the pessimism of Schopenhauer and Giacomo Leopardi, as well as French influences including Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle.

In 1900, he married Mathilda Frelinghuysen Davis, with whom he had three children.[2] Their sons Henry and John became politicians.[3]

He died near Nantucket in August 1909. A biography, The Life of George Cabot Lodge (1911), was written by his friend and confidant Henry Adams. His collected poems and dramas, in two volumes, were published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who wrote the note (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) sometimes referred to as Henry Cabot Lodge II,[1] was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See (as Presidential Representative). He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election.